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How to fix MOOCs with… Facebook. OMG.
No sooner did I push the publish button for one of my latest post on Facebook sharing, that I fell on this other gem of an article, form Campus Technology, reporting a spectacular series of stupidities. Article title is: Research: … Continue reading
Cyberspace
danah boyd‘s piece It’s not Cyberspace anymore resonates strongly. I feel what she wrote, and the short article will be material for my class of New Media inf115, which has a subtitle of Reclaiming the Web. This week EFF members celebrate … Continue reading
Posted in abierto, education, philosophic-discourse
Tagged cyberspace, EFF, inf115, magic, open, Web
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Marx, Crime and the Cuckoo
What’s in common between Karl Marx, crime and the cuckoo clock, if anything? Well, there is first this little pamphlet written by Marx himself, titled “In praise of crime”, or something very like this. In it, Marx says that, contrary … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, film, irony, philosophy
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Life, Movie-making and Basket-weaving according to Woody Allen
My reflection of the day, from Woody Allen. We’re all gonna wind up in a very bad position one day sooner or later. The only way to deal with it as an artist is to try to come up with … Continue reading
Creation and meaning and House of Cards
[No spoilers ahead] One episode of the new season of House of Cards has some Tibetan monks make a beautiful colored-sand mandala in the White House. Like all good mandalas (and puzzles, by the way) a mandala -as a pure … Continue reading